My father was an architect and he once challenged me to find an area of study that he didn't need to know anything about, and as of yet I haven't. Designing a c

My father was an architect and he once challenged me to find an area of study that he didn't need to know anything about, and as of yet I haven't. Designing a church? You better know something of the religion. An arena? You should understand the sport, otherwise how do you optimize the sight lines? A pharmaceutical factory? You need a good grasp of chemistry to design a safe environment. And then there are the studies of human psychology and interaction that should help inform the design of any structure as well as your requisite art, history, design, math and engineering knowledge.